The road to collective debt in Rural China: Bureaucracies, social institutions, and public goods provision

Modern China

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 271-307

  Zhou, Xueguang ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bureaucracy; collective debt; public goods; rural governance

Indexed keywords

BUREAUCRACY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; GOVERNMENT; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; PUBLIC GOODS;

CHINA;

EID: 84859809001     PISSN: 00977004     EISSN: 15526836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0097700411416216     Document Type: Article

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